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'''''Semeiotic''''' is one of the terms that [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] used to describe his theory of [[triadic relation|triadic]] [[sign relation]]s, along with ''semiotic'' and the plural variants of both terms. As a practical matter, the form ''semeiotic'' is useful in distinguishing Peirce's theory, since it is less often used by other writers to describe their particular approaches to the subject matter.
'''''Semeiotic''''' is one of the terms that [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] used to describe his theory of [[triadic relation|triadic]] [[sign relations]], along with ''semiotic'' and the plural variants of both terms. The form ''semeiotic'' is often used to distinguish Peirce's theory, since it is less often used by other writers to denote their particular approaches to the subject.
==Types of signs==
==Types of signs==
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<p>In the first place there are likenesses or copies — such as ''statues'', ''pictures'', ''emblems'', ''hieroglyphics'', and the like. Such representations stand for their objects only so far as they have an actual resemblance to them — that is agree with them in some characters. The peculiarity of such representations is that they do not determine their objects — they stand for anything more or less; for they stand for whatever they resemble and they resemble everything more or less.</p>
<p>In the first place there are likenesses or copies — such as ''statues'', ''pictures'', ''emblems'', ''hieroglyphics'', and the like. Such representations stand for their objects only so far as they have an actual resemblance to them — that is agree with them in some characters. The peculiarity of such representations is that they do not determine their objects — they stand for anything more or less; for they stand for whatever they resemble and they resemble everything more or less.</p>
<p>The second kind of representations are such as are set up by a convention of men or a decree of God. Such are ''tallies'', ''proper names'', &c. The peculiarity of these ''conventional signs'' is that they represent no character of their objects. Likenesses denote nothing in particular; ''conventional signs'' connote nothing in particular.</p>
<p>The second kind of representations are such as are set up by a convention of men or a decree of God. Such are ''tallies'', ''proper names'', &c. The peculiarity of these ''conventional signs'' is that they represent no character of their objects. Likenesses denote nothing in particular; ''conventional signs'' connote nothing in particular.</p>
<p>The third and last kind of representations are ''symbols'' or general representations. They connote attributes and so connote them as to determine what they denote. To this class belong all ''words'' and all ''conceptions''. Most combinations of words are also symbols. A proposition, an argument, even a whole book may be, and should be, a single symbol. (Peirce 1866, "Lowell Lecture 7", CE 1, 467–468).</p>
<p>The third and last kind of representations are ''symbols'' or general representations. They connote attributes and so connote them as to determine what they denote. To this class belong all ''words'' and all ''conceptions''. Most combinations of words are also symbols. A proposition, an argument, even a whole book may be, and should be, a single symbol. (Peirce 1866, "Lowell Lecture 7", CE 1, 467–468).</p>
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* [[Charles Sanders Peirce|Peirce, C.S.]], [[Charles Sanders Peirce (Bibliography)|Bibliography]].
* [[Charles Sanders Peirce|Peirce, C.S.]], [[Charles Sanders Peirce (Bibliography)|Bibliography]].
* Peirce, C.S., ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857–1866'', Peirce Edition Project (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982. Cited as CE 1.
* Peirce, C.S., ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857–1866'', Peirce Edition Project (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982. Cited as CE 1.
* Peirce, C.S. (1865), "On the Logic of Science", Harvard University Lectures, CE 1, 161–302.
* Peirce, C.S. (1865), "On the Logic of Science", Harvard University Lectures, CE 1, 161–302.
* Peirce, C.S. (1866), "The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis", Lowell Institute Lectures, CE 1, 357–504.
* Peirce, C.S. (1866), "The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis", Lowell Institute Lectures, CE 1, 357–504.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
==External links==
==External links==
* [http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/142.php Semeiotic → ThoughtMesh]
* [http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/142.php Semeiotic → ThoughtMesh]
* Bergman & Paavola (eds.), ''Commens Dictionary of Peirce's Terms'', [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/dictionary.html Webpage]
* Bergman & Paavola (eds.), ''Commens Dictionary of Peirce's Terms'', [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/dictionary.html Webpage]